Nottingham-Southampton is a match of the thirty-fifth day of the Premier League and is played on Monday at 9 pm: tv, formations, predictions
Savings clash. With a team, however, the visiting team, that has a foot and a half – maybe even something more – in the Championship. Certainly, the match that will close round number 35 of the Premier League is more important for Nottingham, which dreams of staying in the English top flight.
Salvation is possible for the hosts, who have 30 points and could overtake Leeds in the standings with a win. Unlike Southampton, who have 24 points and with just a few days left in the season, are six points away from what at this moment is a salvation that is more a dream than something real, something that can be touched. Yes, it is almost impossible to think about anything other than planning for next year.
And that is why, of course, Nottingham is the favored team: yes, the moment is not one to remember – one win and four defeats in the last five outings – but against surely stronger teams. Putting behind them, then, a schedule that caused the hosts to be sucked into the red zone, everything now seems downhill. Beginning with this match that could certainly provide some certainty for the end of this year. Nottingham’s salvation, also because of the teams in the English top league, would be truly sensational.
Alcaraz (Lapresse)
The prediction
So we like good stories, and Nottingham’s is definitely one of them. Three very heavy points for the hosts and Southampton who then could also be arithmetically relegated. No, there should be no doubt who will take this win. Also because on the other side of the field, there is a lineup that has not won since last March 4 and that is also why it does not deserve to achieve salvation.
The probable lineups of Nottingham-Southampton
- NOTTINGHAM (3-4-2-1): Navas; Worrall, Felipe, Niakhate; Aurier, Mangala, Danilo, Lodi; Johnson, Gibbs, Awoniyi.
- SOUTHAMPTON (4-4-2): McCarthy; Walker, Bednarek, Bella, Lyanco; Armstrong, Ward-Promse, Lavia, Sulemana; Djenepo, Alcaraz.
POSSIBLE EXACT RESULT: 1-0
